April 1, 2009

Departments

THOUSAND OAKS, CA — Thirty-seven miles from Hollywood, digital cinema
history was made in the suburb of Thousand Oaks, where the first
all-digital 4K projection theater in California opened its doors ...

With the economy in the tank and things looking rough for the foreseeable future, how many post pros will be heading to the NAB show in Las Vegas to check out, and even purchase, new gear? More than y ...

As I started this review of Sapphire V.3 (one of the most established and trusted workhorses in the arsenal of AVX filters around), I discovered that beyond the vast assortment of Sapphire filters I o ...

Facebook isn’t just for catching up with friends you haven’t seen since elementary school, it’s also a good place to start networking with people from the industry — those you’ve met and those you hop ...

HOLLYWOOD — Imagine an alternate reality, where Nixon is still president of America (in 1985), the Vietnam War was won, not lost, and the USA and the Soviet Union are still fighting the Cold War. Welc ...

March 25, 2009

Features

While overt visual effects, like a liquid metal terminator, a morphing
Mustang, a frozen man or a ping-pong playing mirror, encourage you to
suspend your disbelief, they at the same time can help get ...

The workstations used by professionals in the DCC and media &
entertainment space — video editors, VFX creators, CG animators, game
developers and others — sit squarely in the midst of the churning
vo ...

April 1, 2009

Web Exclusives

A feature of converting material from one standard to another is that is that the colour gamut changes. This is particularly noticeable where material developed for digital cinema is converted to SD o ...

TORONTO - Motion design studio BTRY recently crafted a CG title
sequence for the FITC's two-day conference in New York City. "Pause -
An Exploration of Concept and Design within Broadcast and Film" is ...

All right, it's that time of year again where we either dread the hours it takes to fill out tax forms, or look forward to the rewards of keeping those books accurate. Here are a few quick application ...